Ye gotta crank yer traction bars down reel tight on the back leaf ta get ‘em newfangled cars ter break loose like thet, an when ya do, yer fronts get all kinda wonky. I had thet exact same problem on mah 89 LX, once we put tha 5-0 innit that sucker’d wiggle downna whole eaith-mile. We fin’ly fixed it by strappin’…

April fools?

“Ze X7 is nossing like ze X5. Look, ze headlights are angrier, ze kidneys are bigger, ze taillights look even more like zey are from ein Kia...zis is ein zerious departure from ze schtatus qvuo for us.”

Well, OEMS have been trying to turn cars into appliances for 30 years, so I suppose this makes a lot of sense.

thanks man, I gave the car all my love and felt like a fool in the rain when it got so many negative responses, but hey, what can I do? At the end of the day it was nobody’s fault but mine. Ten years gone now, and the car gets a whole lotta love, so I guess dancing days are here again

I think he went by bandit. Last I saw he got the car together and running!

Definitely. Didn’t even matter that my car was a factory Chevy 350 car, even the more progressive guys screamed sacrilege. I was really shocked.

The juice was worth the squeeze

Precisely, at least until the drummer kicked the bucket and screwed everything up for all of us.

Awesome build. Love that pro-touring second gen birds are finally getting some love and attention. When I did an LS in a 78 formula 8 years ago it went over like a led Zeppelin.

This is down the street from me, and insane, and I want it so. bad. But it’s the most terrifying example of “other people’s project” I've seen in quite some time.

Honestly, the ballaban special is the correct configuration. Just rewrite this article as the buyer’s guide and save the team some trouble down the road.

If my garage counts as a museum I do!

Far from noble, I’d say the v6 firebird is an insult to its owners; a crass cash-grab indicative of the mentality at GM that led to Pontiac’s demise, the car preyed upon blue-collar aspirations by using a storied nameplate and the V8 performance the pony-car looks promised to make up for shit quality. As a V8, that…

Two scenarios, in my opinion:

Everybody wondering how the name got through isn’t thinking German enough. These are the same people that developed the 5GT to steal Escalade customers. If you use a little imagination you can almost hear management congratulating themselves on how clever they are at the end of the marketing team’s spiel about…

Hey Freddy,

As soon as they tightened up the housing market I was afraid car loans would be next. Gonna be a really big mess when the bottom drops out on this one.

Overheard around the Hyundai design office water cooler:

I think the important part of this article is the one where we start to dig into the idea that the pathos that has led to the proliferation of ultra-high-performance cars used to 0% of their capability is actually a little more complex than just “people want status symbols”.